Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. Treasury of Scripture God Job 22:22-27 Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart... Job 27:8,9 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul... Proverbs 15:8,29 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight... Proverbs 28:9 He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools... Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear... Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape... Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled on their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine... Hosea 8:2,3 Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know you... Matthew 6:7 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 20:21,22 And he said to her, What will you? She said to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand... James 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts. regard Job 30:20 I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not. Psalm 102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. Amos 5:22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them...
Context Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
1Elihu spoke moreover, and said, 2Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? 3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4I will answer you, and your companions with you. 5Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you. 6If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him? 7If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand? 8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. 10But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night; 11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 12There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. 14Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him. 15But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity: 16Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Surely God will not hear an empty cry , Neither will the Almighty regard it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
Darby Bible Translation
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
King James Bible
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Young's Literal Translation
Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
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